[spacebanana7]

Out of curiosity, is there anything technical the Spanish authorities could do to block Starlink (i.e jamming)? Or are legal/bureaucratic measures the only solution?

[s1artibartfast]

They can roll up to the starlink ground station and turn of the power or cut the cords.

Edit" it looks like the inter-satellite capacity might be able to handle more than I thought

https://mikepuchol.com/modeling-starlink-capacity-843b2387f5...

[hinkley]

I believe I recall them bragging about increases to horizontal bandwidth in the later designs. You may be thinking of the original network?

[s1artibartfast]

IIRC, Originally they had none

[itishappy]

Starlink terminals are jammable, but the jamming source will need to be in it's FOV and it uses quite a focused beam. Not particularly viable for an entire nation.

The ground stations would be a lot more vulnerable, but cutting the cable would be a lot easier than flying a Ku/Ka band jammer overhead.

[bombcar]

There are countries where starlink isn’t available. But if you get one from a nearby country and keep quiet it works.

Spain isn’t large enough, I suspect. But they can lean on starlink as long as they’re sold there.

[entropyneur]

Hopefully not something that can happen in Spain, but in authoritarian countries they simply arrest or otherwise penalize the end users.